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De lapide philosophico, das ist, Von dem Gebenedeyten Stein der Weysen oder Chemia : zu gründlichem vnnd warhafftigem Bericht, allen Werden Liebhabern, der Waren, Edlen und reinen Kunst Chemiae, gantz hell vnd klar, aus brüderlicher Liebe und Wolmeinung geschrieben

by: Hildebrandt, Johann Bernhard

Publication date: 1618
Topics: Alchemy
Publisher: Gedruckt zu Hall in Sachsen : Bey Peter Schmidt, in vorlegung Joachimi Kruscicken
Collection: getty; americana
Contributor: Getty Research Institute
Language: German
Item Size: 2.3G

Signatures: A-L⁸ M⁴

Illustrations: eleven woodcuts with alchemical imagery and emblems

The majority of the woodcut illustrations in the Getty Research Institute copy are hand-colored

Binding: old vellum over boards; ink title on spine; sprinkled edges; engraved bookplate of Säfstaholms Bibliotek on front pastedown; heraldic wax seals on front free end-paper and final page

The library's copy is bound with: Claveus Germanicus, das ist, Ein köstlichess Büchlein von dem Stein der Weisen. Hall in Sachsen : Peter Schmidt, 1617 -- Clavis Sapiente, das ist, Ein Edles vnd köstliches Büchlein vom Stein der Weysen welcher genant wird, der Schlüssel der grössern Weissheit. Halle in Sachsen : Peter Schmidt, 1618 -- [an incomplete copy of an unidentified alchemical work in German, without title or preliminaries]